FC Lviv ( uk, ФК «Львів») was a

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professional

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club from the city of

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, that competed in the

Ukrainian First League The Persha Liha ( uk, Перша ліга) or Ukrainian First League is a professional football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions pyramid. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. It is th ...

. While the first president of FC Lviv Oleksandr Didenko insisted that FC Lviv of 1992 has nothing to do with the later clubs, another football functionary Rostyslav Zaremba argued that it is not that simple.

History

FC Lviv (2006–2012)

The club was founded in May 2006. It entered the

Persha Liha The Persha Liha ( uk, Перша ліга) or Ukrainian First League is a professional football league in Ukraine and the second tier of national football competitions pyramid. Members of the league also participate in the Ukrainian Cup. It is t ...

as a replacement for the bankrupt club

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, which also represented

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

. The new entity was registered on 22 May 2006 as a company with limited liability ( uk, Товариство з обмеженою відповідальністю) "Football Club "Lviv". Later in May 2006 the PFL Bureau session adopted a decision to recognize the club as a lawful successor ( uk, правонаступник) of

that played in Persha Liha. This fact was also confirmed at a press-conference given at the Football Federation of Lviv Oblast on 26 May 2006.FC "Lviv" does not belong to the city (ФК "Львів" не належить місту)
Shchodennyi Lviv. 26 May 2006 The new president of the new club

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informed that his club was not created as a municipal club. In its debut season FC Lviv reached 11th place and scored 45 goals. At the start of the next season, in the beginning of September 2007, the club moved to the newly built stadium Kniazha Arena in

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, west of

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. This arena was constructed by and named after

insurance company ''Knyazha'', who is the club's main sponsor. The previous home ground of the club was SKA Stadium in

, which fell out of favor with the

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, PFL. In 2007–08 season FC Lviv finished 2nd in the

and were promoted to the Premier Liha for the first time in their history, making the club one of the founders of the newly formed

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. In 2008–09 FC Lviv, despite a sensational opening 2–0 win against Shakhtar, were relegated to the

. The decisive match for them happened in the last round against another Lviv team Karpaty in the

Lviv derby Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

when they lost 2–1. The club's first, and only, season in the

was spent at The Ukraina Stadium together with Karpaty under a lease contract. In 2009, the city of

lent the former land property of LORTA Plant for rent to FC Lviv. Out of 3.0542 ha FC Lviv receives 2.9 ha in rent until the spring of 2019 and the rest for only five years. On 12 July 2012 the sports director of FC Lviv Rostyslav Zaremba confirmed that the club has been withdrawn from competitions due to financial issues.

FC Lviv (since 2016)

In 2016 the professional team of FC Lviv was renewed and its future participation in Druha Liha was announced. In May 2018, the club was promoted to the

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on pretence of merging with

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and play in the

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. At its official website, the club tells that all efforts of

are actually efforts of FC Lviv instead.The club's introduction card
FC Lviv. The club states that it was FC Lviv that placed 6th in the

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, while the same claim for this achievement is laid by Veres Rivne. Records however clearly show that at that time FC Lviv played in the

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and recovered their professional status only in 2017. This claim is particularly bold as in 2017

, as a "people's club", had a big scandal with its promotion ahead of

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Players

Team squad

Out on loan

Coaches and administration

List of presidents

* 2006–2009: Yuriy Kindzerskyi * 2009–2012: Football Federation of Lviv Oblast (led by Yaroslav Hrysyo) * 2016–2018: Roman Mykhayliv * Since 2018: Bohdan Kopytko

Administrative and coaching staff

Football kits and sponsors

Since 2006 till 2012, the main sponsor was Knyazha (insurance company), other sponsors were

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(brewery), and the technical sponsor was

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Honours

:: Runners-up (1): 2007–08

League and Cup history

FC Lviv-2

Football Club Lviv-2 () was a reserve team of FC Lviv that played in the

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competition. The team was created based on a reserve (dublery) team that played in reserve competitions of the Vyshcha Liha in 2008–09 season. FC Lviv-2 played in the 2009-10 PFL League Cup.

League and cup history

Coaches

;FC Lviv (2006) *

Bohdan Bandura Bohdan Bandura ( ua, Богдан Романович Бандура; born 30 January 1960 in Kiselyovsk, Soviet Union) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian professional football midfielder and current Ukrainian coach. Career Bandura is better known f ...

(30 June 2006 – 6 April 2007) *

Vyacheslav Mavrov Vyacheslav, also transliterated Viacheslav or Viatcheslav (russian: Вячеслав, Vjačeslav ; uk, В'ячеслав, V"jačeslav ), is a Russian and Ukrainian masculine given name. It is the equivalent of Belarusian Вячаслаў/Вацл� ...

(interim, 6 April 2007 – 7 May 2007) *

Stepan Yurchyshyn Stepan Fedorovych Yurchyshyn ( uk, Степан Федорович Юрчишин; born 28 August 1957) is a Ukrainian retired football player. The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Lviv in 1990, 1992, and then from 1999 to 2006. In 2007, ...

(7 May 2007 – 27 September 2008) *

Roman Laba Roman Romanovych Laba ( uk, Роман Романович Лаба; born 30 November 1966) is a Ukrainian former football striker, and currently interim coach of Lviv in the Ukrainian First League. Coaching career After he retired from playing ...

(interim, 27 September 2008 – 14 October 2008) *

Serhiy Kovalets Serhiy Ivanovych Kovalets ( uk, Сергій Іванович Ковалець; born 5 September 1968) is a Ukrainian former football midfielder and current manager of Inhulets Petrove. Playing career Kovalets played 10 matches for Ukraine betw ...

(14 October 2008 – 16 June 2009) **

Yuriy Benyo Yuriy Volodymyrovych Benyo ( uk, Юрій Володимирович Беньо; born 25 April 1974) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a defender and current assistant manager at Shakhtar Donetsk. Career He played fo ...

(14 October 2008 – 16 June 2009) (ass't coach) *

(16 June 2009 – 8 August 2009) *

(interim, 8 August 2009 – 19 August 2009) *

Ihor Yavorskyi Ihor Yavorskyi ( uk, Ігор Петрович Яворський; born 9 June 1959) is a Ukrainian former footballer and football manager. Career Yavorskyi began his career with FC Falcon Lviv in the Ukrainian amateur leagues. In 1978, he sign ...

(19 August 2009 – 10 November 2009) *

Algimantas Liubinskas Algimantas Liubinskas (born 4 November 1951 in Kybartai) is a former head coach of the Lithuania national football team. Football At 31 years old, Liubinskas became the youngest ever coach of the Soviet Supreme League team Žalgiris Vilnius (wh ...

(1 January 2010 – 19 April 2010) * Viktor Ryashko (caretaker) (19 April 2010 – 23 June 2010) *

Oleksandr Ryabokon Oleksandr Ryabokon ( ua, Олександр Дмитрович Рябоконь; born 21 February 1964) is a former Ukrainian football defender, and recently, until 2022, the head-coach of FC Desna Chernihiv in the Ukrainian Premier League. He ...

(23 June 2010 – 28 June 2011) *

(28 June 2011 – 24 September 2011) (interim) * Roman Marych (24 September 2011 – 1 February 2012) (interim) *

Volodymyr Zhuravchak Volodymyr Zhuravchak ( ua, Володимир Олексійович Журавчак; born 3 May 1957) is a Ukrainian football coach and a former player. Coaching career The first team that he coached was FC Karpaty Kamianka-Buzka in 1991. He ...

(1 February 2012 – June 2012) ;FC Lviv (2016) *

Andriy Chikh Andriy or Andrii Andriy Khanas Andriy Petrovych Khanas ( uk, Андрій Петрович Ханас; born 26 July 1984) is a Ukrainian retired professional footballer who played as a defender and current assistant manager at Shakhtar Donetsk. Honours Sokil Zolochiv * Ukrai ...

(interim, 8 May 2018 – 8 June 2018) *

Andriy Demchenko Andriy Anatoliyovych Demchenko ( ua, Андрій Анатолійович Демченко; born 20 August 1976) is a Ukrainian football coach and former player who manages Georgian club Dinamo Batumi. He played as an attacking midfielder or ...

(interim, 8 June 2018 – 29 June 2018) *

Gil Paulista Gilmar Tadeu da Silva (born 18 November 1970), commonly known as Gil Paulista is a Brazilian association football, football manager and former player. Career Gilmar was born in 1970 in São Paulo, started playing football at a well-known youth ...

(3 July 2018 – 14 August 2018) *

Yuriy Bakalov Yuriy Bakalov ( uk, Юрій Михайлович Бакалов; born 16 January 1966 in Kyiv, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union - in present-day Ukraine) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian professional football midfielder and manager. Car ...

(16 August 2018 – 8 April 2019) *

Taras Hrebenyuk Taras Oleksandrovych Hrebenyuk ( ua, Тарас Олександрович Гребенюк; born 23 August 1971) is a Ukrainian retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper and current goalkeeping coach at Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. Hon ...

(interim, 8 April 2019 – 16 April 2019) *

Bohdan Blavatskyi Bohdan Blavatskyi ( uk, Богдан Ігорович Блавацький; born 7 June 1963) is a Soviet Ukrainian former football forward and now a football coach since 1994. Coaching career Bohdan Blavatskyi started his coaching career in ...

(16 April 2019 – 10 September 2019) *

Volodymyr Mazyar Volodymyr Mazyar ( uk, Володимир Іванович Мазяр, born 28 September 1977) is a Ukrainian football manager and a former player. From 2011 to July 2022, he was the manager of Akzhayik in Kazakhstan. Career He worked a manage ...

(10 September 2019 – 31 October 2019) * Yegishe Melikyan (31 October 2019 – 21 June 2020) *

Giorgi Tsetsadze Giorgi (Gia) Tsetsadze (, born on 3 September 1974) is a Georgian football manager. Most recently he was the head coach of Telavi. Career In 2011 Tsetsadze led FC Dila Gori to gain promotion to the Georgia top division (Umaglesi Liga). In 2013 ...

(22 June 2020 – 24 October 2020) *

Vitaliy Shumskyi Vitaliy Shumskyi ( uk, Віталій Іванович Шумський; born 17 May 1972) is a Ukrainians, Ukrainian professional Association football, football coach and a former player. Playing career After playing in Belgium Shumskyi moved t ...

(28 October 2020 – 1 March 2021) (interim) *

Anatoliy Bezsmertnyi Anatoliy Petrovych Bezsmertnyi ( uk, Анатолій Петрович Безсмертний; born 21 January 1969) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and former player. Career Bezsmertnyi started to play football at the Dynamo sports ...

(2 March 2021 – 25 August 2021) * Taras Chopyk (25 August 2021 – 6 September 2021) (interim) * Oleg Dulub (6 September 2021 – present)

References

External links

*
The official Web Site

The official website of the FC Lviv sports school
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